Just came across an item posted last week on the Official Google Blog that reminded me of the many hours that used to vanish any time I sat in front of a microfilm machine. (Kids: ask your grandparents.) Google, in its never-ending quest to digitize the planet, has announced:
... an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony.
Effective now, Google Book Search will also return results from magazines. If you click on a link pointing to a magazine result, chances are you'll also see, on the new page, links for the whole magazine and for all issues of that magazine.
This. Is. Book.
If you visit the home page for Google Book Search at this moment, you'll see some of the magazines they've digitized. Reload the page to see more.
[Added] Looks like Spellbound Blog took this a step further, and put together a tentative list of all the magazines currently available through the Google.
Example: "Doghouse to Let," by Red Smith, from the July 1945 issue of Baseball Digest.
Example: a profile of George Bush on the campaign trail. No, not that one. This one's about HW, and was written in late 1979 and published in the 21 Jan 1980 edition of New York, before it became clear that he'd end up being Reagan's VP nominee.
Example: a February 1960 article in Popular Mechanics, describing the new electronics being deployed by casinos that "keeps the gamblers honest."
Example: Gen. Leslie Groves on the future of atomic bomb projects, from the Dec 1945 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
You might recall that last month, I noted that Google also recently began hosting Life magazine's photo archive.
More hours in the day, please.
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